Marianne Theresa John­son-Reddick born Jan 4, 1935 and died alone on Sept. 30, 2013. She is sur­vived by her 6 of 8 children whom she spent her lifetime torturing in every way pos­sible. While she neglected and abused her small chil­dren, she refused to allow anyone else to care or show compassion towards them. When they became adults she stalked and tortured anyone they dared to love. Everyone she met, adult or child was tortured by her cruelty and exposure to violence, criminal activity, vulgarity, and hatred of the gentle or kind human spirit.

On behalf of her children whom she so abrasively ex­posed to her evil and vio­lent life, we celebrate her passing from this earth and hope she lives in the after­life reliving each gesture of violence, cruelty, and shame that she delivered on her children. Her surviv­ing children will now live the rest of their lives with the peace of knowing their nightmare finally has some form of closure.

Most of us have found peace in helping those who have been exposed to child abuse and hope this message of her final passing can re­vive our message that abus­ing children is unforgive­able, shameless, and should not be tolerated in a “hu­mane society”. Our greatest wish now, is to stimulate a national movement that mandates a purposeful and dedicated war against child abuse in the United States of America.

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The international media spotlight is shining on a family from Northern Nevada who made waves earlier this week when they submitted a scathing obituary to the Reno Gazette-Journal about their abusive mother who died Aug. 30.

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Two of Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick’s adult children, Katherine Reddick and Patrick Reddick, agreed to submit the obit to RGJ.com that started off with the line, “She is survived by her 6 of 8 children whom she spent her lifetime torturing in every way possible."

Here’s what others are reporting:

From Inside Edition:

New York, NY — September 13, 2013 — Inside Edition’s Jim Moret speaks exclusively with Patrick Reddick, who with his sister Katherine, wrote a scathing obituary about their abusive mother, Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick, who died in Reno last month.

Reddick tells Inside Edition that Johnson-Reddick beat and abused him and his seven siblings, and ran a brothel out of their home in Reno, Nev.

“Typically the beatings were two to three times a day, every time she’d go off,” says Reddick.

A completely unrepentant Patrick Reddick, 58, said that he smiled and felt a wave of relief at the news Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick, 78, had passed away on August 30.

She terrorized him so much that even when he went to see her a week before she died he insisted doctors sedate her - and wore sunglasses as a disguise in case she woke up.

The Huffington Post via the Associated Press:

Six of Johnson-Reddick's eight children were admitted to the Nevada Children's Home from 1963 to 1964 after they endured regular beatings, sometimes with a metal-tipped belt, and other abuse at the hands of their mother, Patrick Reddick said. He said he's had phone calls from "all over the world" about the obituary.

Reddick beat her children when they returned from foster care in a children's home on the weekends, and made them sleep on the floor while she ran a prostitution business from home, Mr. (Patrick) Reddick said.

He does not keep photos of his mother because they make him nervous.

When Mr. Reddick returned to see his mother for the last time, he was so scared he asked doctors to sedate her and wore sunglasses so she wouldn't recognize him if she woke up, he said.